A few observations: The Winspear Opera House is all "corporate luxury"; the West End is full of "oddly deserted streets"; the downtown one-two punch of Philip Johnson's Kennedy memorial and John Neely Bryan's "cabin" make for "a strange, bleak kind of centre." And he loathes I.M. Pei's City Hall: "Looking like the back-end of a stadium combined with the ferociously forbidding aesthetic of Washington DC's FBI Building, this is civic architecture that hates the idea of the city."